I voted yes......in their mind.
Case in point, I used to fuck this one broad for a few YEARS. The whole time she had a boyfriend. Now, in her mind we were "just friends". One day she came crying to me about how she caught the dude messing around on her and she couldn't beLIEVE the shit because she has been so faithful to him all those years.....
I'm (thinking) like....you just blew me in the car before I dropped you off at work 3 days ago...
So we got drunk and fucked again that night. In HER mind, she has been faithful to him and we were "just friends". I'm okay with the dillusion, if you believe it then it's real, for you. Eventually it got to the point where this broad started telling me she loved me (mind you she still wit this dude) and wanted us to be together....I'm like this can't work because look we both ain't shit...then I started to distance myself from that shit and it eventually fizzled out.
In reality though, the only pure friendships I've had were my homeboys women which mentally have always been off limits to me. I usually don't get too close to them though out of respect. It's possible
Beyond that, I've never had a direct female friendship that either we ain't end up fucking, she tried to hook me up with friends and shit eventually got weird, or some sexual energy is the undercurrent the whole time and it's lightweight awkward. If alcohol was ever involved it's a high probability we fucked.